HCDExchange

A community working at the intersection of human-centered design and adolescent sexual and reproductive health

Edem Torkornoo

Edem is the Communications Specialist at HCDExchange responsible for developing and implementing a communications strategy that serves our learning agenda, community engagement, and field-building work in HCD+ASRH. She is is a digital marketer turned bookseller and educator. She is the creator of Booksie, a pan-African children's bookshop and literacy center based in Accra, Ghana. Through Booksie, Edem makes African children's books easily accessible and helps children fall in love with books.

Edem has previously served as a Communications Teaching Fellow at Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra where she co-designed and delivered a curriculum focused on the art of professional communications. She also prepared budding software entrepreneurs to pitch their business ideas to investors.

Edem was on the Founding Team at African Leadership University (ALU), a university on a mission to develop the next generation of African leaders. At ALU, she managed social media and several digital marketing efforts.

She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a major in Economics and a minor in Journalism.

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Fellowship Learning & Reflections: Nzisa Kioko, YLabs

What I learned from this experience was that planning is important, but you also have to plan for mitigation strategies. You have to have a backup plan for all the ‘what if’s’ that can happen, which is a thing I learned in YLabs. Before we went to the field we had a mitigation strategy meeting where we asked – what happens when people don’t show up?

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Fellowship Learning & Reflections: David Mireri, PS Kenya/Adolescents360

The greatest thing about the fellowship is the aspect of community. It is really what I was looking for and I can see that it is there. The bond that I share with the other fellows who are working in other organisations – the way we interact, the way we share ideas, the way we build upon each other’s ideas – I find that very useful!

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Meet the New HCDExchange Advisory Council

We are thrilled to present the new HCDExchange Advisory Council! The Advisory Committee provides HCDExchange with expertise, leadership support, and strategic direction. They lend their voices and influence as HCD+ASRH champions, advocate for the adoption of good practices and for the generation of evidence and broker partnerships and create opportunities to secure political and financial […]

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Meet the new HCDExchange Youth Leadership Hub

We are extremely excited to introduce you to the second batch of HCDExchange Youth Leadership Hub Associates. The Youth Leadership Hub (YLH) is a cohort of eight youth HCD+ASRH leaders from sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia who offer insight on young people’s lives and experiences, lead meaningful youth engagement efforts, and demonstrate youth leadership across HCDExchange’s work. 

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We’re hiring: Senior Program Manager, HCDExchange Community of Practice

Under the direction of the HCDExchange Project Director, the Senior Program Manager (SPM) is responsible for planning, team management and performance oversight that is aimed at achieving the HCDExchange’s mission and objectives with a focus on quality assurance and compliance as well as creativity, collaboration and camaraderie. He/she/they will manage and execute HCDExchange’s work plan, supervise and support a cross-cultural and geographically distributed team, and develop or refine processes and practices that boost efficiency, facilitate collaboration, and honor differences.

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Community Call Learning Summary: Keeping Quality at the Core of HCD + ASRH

As we work to build the field of HCD + ASRH as a more mainstream way of running this kind of programming, we want to ensure that quality remains central to these programmes, and there are universal standards for evaluating quality. This helps to ensure that all stakeholders are held accountable to the same standard and we can avoid the use of tokenistic human-centred design approaches.